Professional development workshop for faculty of the Nine College and University International Studies Consortium of Georgia, addressing political and economic aspects of the current Russia-Ukraine conflict and how this material could be introduced into undergraduate classrooms.
Professor Tsakonas provided a presentation on the European migration crisis to a group of high school students (one school in person and two other schools joined in remotely via BlueJeans). Following his presentation students had the opportunity to participate in a brief Q&A. This event was organized in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh.
The Global Studies Center invites you to join the discussion of the ongoing refugee crisis around the Mediterranean. Our guest experts will speak on the causes of displacement, the European response, and the refugee experience and will take your questions!
Dr. Sola Talabi is a Professor of Nuclear Physics and Risk Management at Carnegie Mellon University. He will discuss the role of advanced Technology in bridging Africa's power gap. Pizza will be proivided.
The presentation will focus on Human Security and Human Rights — Are these streams of work complementary or competitive?
For the ESC’s first installment of our monthly virtual roundtables series, we are asking a panel of experts to reflect upon some of the most significant differences between the US and European models of higher education. In particular, we will be looking at the question of who pays for students to go to University, and how much it costs both the individual and society. Our panel of experts will include: Dr.
Brazil Today is a one-credit (Pitt)/ three-unit (CMU) mini course, consisting of 14 hours of classes over a weekend, with a major paper assignment to be completed for credit. This course is created for undergraduate and graduate students. However, K-12 educators, business and community members are welcome to attend all or sections of the course for free. The course will open with two keynote lectures on Friday evening on an overview of the issues. This will be followed by instructional lectures on Saturday on the various themes by experts in the fields.
Dr. Panayotis Tsakonas, an Onassis Foundation Fellow and Professor Ozgehan Senyuva, visiting from Middle Eastern Technical University as part of Pitt's EU-GLOBAL partnership, will present a roundtable discussion of the current state of Turkish-Greek-EU relations. Given recent elections in Turkey, recent economic turmoil in Greece, and on-going negotiations between both parties over Cyprus, there will be no shortage of interesting topics to discuss.
Dans le monde francophone, quelles sont les relations entre l’identité linguistique, l’identité nationale, le sexe, et la sexualité?
Prenez part à notre vidéoconférence pour répondre à cette question avec un panel d’experts:
Abdellah Taïa, écrivain marocain d’expression française
Denis Provencher, professeur de français et de la communication interculturelle à l’Université de Maryland Baltimore County
Nadia Fadil, professeur au Centre de recherches sociologiques, KU Leuven
